The next budget of the European Union has to guarantee better connections, a more balanced development and well-being of regions, fairer direct support to farmers, and funding for dealing with migration and security issues, Estonian Prime Minister Juri Ratas, his Latvian counterpart Maris Kucinskis and Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite said in a joint address to their EU colleagues on February 15th, cites LETA/BNS.

Estonia and Lithuania have been a step ahead of Latvia as regards fiscal responsibility lately, the head of the Latvian Fiscal Discipline Council, Janis Platais, said on the public Latvian Radio., cites LETA.

In the third quarter of 2017 Latvia was the only European Union (EU) member whose government debt remained unchanged compared to the same period a year ago, according to the data released on January 24th by Eurostat, reports LETA.

Lithuania's central government and local authorities collected a total of 8.027 billion euros in budget revenue over the whole calendar of 2017, which is 1.5% (EUR 119 mln) above the projected level, writes LETA/BNS.

“Knowing entrepreneurship”: challenges for the Baltics’ authorities There at least two main world’s resources for analysing entrepreneurship: the World Bank yearly reports “doing business” and the OECD regional/national analysis. For already eight years the Amway reports are becoming popular as well. These reports make policy makers better understand the ways to assist business.